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Roadgames

Name: Roadgames
Director: Richard Franklin
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: 1981
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward, Grant Page, Thaddeus Smith

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.

1981 · Directed by Richard Franklin · 101 min · Mystery · Thriller · Horror · 13 frames

Tagline

The truck driver plays games. The hitchhiker plays games. And the killer is playing the deadliest game of all!

Crew

Screenplay: Everett De Roche
Cinematography: Vincent Monton
Edited by: Edward McQueen-Mason
Music: Brian May
Production design: Jon Dowding
Produced by: Richard Franklin

Cast

Stacy Keach as Patrick 'Pat' Quid
Jamie Lee Curtis as Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
Marion Edward as Madeleine 'Frita' Day
Grant Page as Smith or Jones
Thaddeus Smith as Policeman 'Abbott'
Steve Millichamp as Policeman 'Costello'
Alan Hopgood as Lester
John Murphy as Benny Balls
Bill Stacey as Captain Careful
Robert Thompson as Sneezy Rider

Production

Country: Australia
Language: English
Studios: Essaness Pictures, GUO, Quest Productions
Budget: $1,750,000
Box office: $100,000
Themes: australia, truck, serial killer, hitchhiker, truck driver

More by Richard Franklin

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Link — 1986

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